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Missouri Press Association’s past presidents, along with their spouses and significant others, met Thursday, Nov. 6, in Lake Ozark for the annual Past Presidents Dinner. This year’s dinner was hosted by Trevor and Mollie Vernon, who served as MPA’s 2020 president. Those attending the dinner included, from left, Phil Conger (2012), Dave Berry (2003), Donald Warden (1993), Dennis Warden (2016), Peggy Scott (2025), Joe May (2011), John Spaar (2005), Jim Sterling (1985), Amos Bridges (2024), Vernon, MPA Executive Director Chad Stebbins and former MPA Executive Director Doug Crews.

MPA Past Presidents meet in Lake Ozark

Missouri Press Association’s past presidents, along with their spouses and significant others, met Thursday, Nov. 6, in Lake Ozark for the annual Past Presidents Dinner. This year’s …
Maria Cann, a student at Notre Dame High School, shadowed the Call Newspapers newsroom in the fall of 2024 and covered events, including a Halloween carnival. The newspaper has a history of working with local students to provide exposure to community journalism.

Beyond the classroom

Education has always been a basic function of newspapers, from the use of printed publications to circulate public notices to journalism’s more general function of informing audiences about …

On Invasion Day, who jumps in before Paratroopers: the Pathfinders

June 6th, 1944, two minutes past midnight, a C-47 carrying 20 men entered enemy air space over France. It’s the beginning of D-Day. These men are part of the 101st Airborne Division but their …

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Members' views
Whew! It’s been a bit of a whirlwind in my life for the past month or so with so many conventions and conferences to attend. Don’t get me wrong. I love going to the Missouri Press …
All week long — National Newspaper Week — we have been examining the important role newspapers play in their communities and the many ways those communities become malnourished when their …
Kyle Troutman
Walter Cronkite once said, “Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy; it is democracy.” We are in the midst of National Newspaper Week, Oct. 5-11, which I see as the …

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Notebook
Mark Evans is editor of the Ste. Genevieve Herald. In addition to being a longtime community journalist, he writes various fiction in his free time and has authored seven novels so far.
Who owns the newspapers? In September, Better Newspapers, Inc., sold us and their other seven Missouri papers to Paxton Media Group (PMG). We are in the process of learning a whole new system, which …
Chad Stebbins and Kristie Fortier visited Justin Addison, publisher of the Fayette Advertiser in March, the first among several visits to see Missouri Press Association’s member’s offices. Subsequent visits included other Missouri Press staff members and even MPA President Peggy Scott.
When Chad Stebbins was announced as the next executive director of Missouri Press Association, one of his goals was to make personal visits to member newspapers around the state. Since …
The Missouri Press Association has received an Active Specialty Publication Membership application for Missouri Life magazine. Missouri Life is a non-partisan magazine with a statewide …

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Death notices
Kathleen “Kathy” Ann (Carver) Krier, 79, of Warsaw died peacefully on Nov. 11, 2025, surrounded by her family, due to complications from vascular dementia following a fall in August 2025. …
John M Wylie II, 72, of Oologah, Okla., formerly of Kansas City, died October 4, 2025, at his home on Lake Oologah. A decorated and accomplished journalist and publisher who grew up in Kansas …
Russell D. Pettijohn, of St. Joseph, died Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, at the age of 96. He proudly served his country in the Missouri Air National Guard and the U.S. Air Force, where he attained the …

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Has journalism become a dirty word? In my family, no. My father was a journalist, my uncle, my brother and a cousin. Sometimes noble, always needed, the talk around our family dinner …
For decades, students in the Missouri School of Journalism have received a firsthand look at weekly newspapering through the Community Journalism course. First offered by MPA Executive Director …
A few days after the closing of this year’s Missouri Press Associations’ highly-successful convention, this headline from Editor & Publisher magazine’s website caught my …

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